The uncredited voice of Specter was provided by Murray Matheson, who would later appear as Sire Geller in "Greetings from Earth".
The original production title for this episode was "The Young Warriors". Since the episode shown the week before was called "The Magnificent Warriors", the title was changed to "The Young Lords". A novelization by Glen A. Larson and Robert Thurston was published in August 1980 as "Battlestar Galactica 4: The Young Warriors", using the original title.
The sing-song method of learning the attack plan on the garrison is reminiscent of the attack plan in The Dirty Dozen (1967), and is a common learning technique used in the military and sciences.
The planet Attila is named after Attila the Hun, ruler of the Huns, who was the ruler of a tribal empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths and Alans from 434 to 453 AD when he died.
Audrey Landers appears pre-fame as Amazon-styled Miri. She would later graduate to Dallas (1978) as nightclub singer Afton Cooper, and that would in turn lead to a successful recording career including the hits 'Manuel Goodbye' and 'Honeymoon in Trinidad'.